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Using Simple Abstraction to Guide the Reinvention of Computing for Parallelism

Using Simple Abstraction to Guide the Reinvention of Computing for Parallelism. Same title, http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/vishkin/XMT/ cacm2010.pdf , CACM, January 2011, to appear. Uzi Vishkin. Commodity computer systems. 1946  2003 General-purpose computing: Serial . 5KHz 4GHz.

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  1. Using Simple Abstraction to Guide the Reinvention of Computing for Parallelism • Same title, http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/vishkin/XMT/cacm2010.pdf, CACM, January 2011, to appear Uzi Vishkin

  2. Commodity computer systems 19462003General-purpose computing: Serial. 5KHz4GHz. 2004General-purpose computing goes parallel. Clock frequency growth flat. #Transistors/chip 19802011: 29K30B! #”cores”: ~dy-2003 If you want your program to run significantly faster … you’re going to have to parallelize it  Parallelism: only game in town But, what about the programmer? “The Trouble with Multicore: Chipmakers are busy designing microprocessors that most programmers can't handle”—D. Patterson, IEEE Spectrum, 2010 Intel Platform 2015, March05:

  3. Conclusion of Coming Intro Slide(s) • Productivity: code development time + runtime • Vendors’ many-cores are Productivity limited • Vendors: monolithic Concerns 1. CS in awe of vendors’ HW: “face of practice”; Justified only if accepted/adopted 2. Debate: cluttered and off-point 3. May lead to misplaced despair Need HW diversity ofhighproductivity solutions. Then “natural selection”. • Will explain why US interests mandate greater role to academia

  4. Is CS destined for low productivity? Programmer’s productivity busters Many-core HW • Decomposition-inventive design •  Reason about concurrency in threads • For the more parallel HW: issues if whole program is not highly parallel Optimized for things you can “truly measure”: (old) benchmarks & power. What about productivity? [Credit: wordpress.com] An “application dreamer”: between a rock and a hard place Casualties of too-costly SW development - Cost and time-to-market of applications - Business model for innovation (& American ingenuity) - Advantage to lower wage CS job markets. Next slideUS: 15% NSF HS plan: attract best US minds with less programming, 10K CS teachers Vendors/VCs $3.5B Invest in America Alliance: Start-ups,10.5K CS grad jobs .. Only future of the field & U.S. (and ‘US-like’) competitiveness

  5. Membership in Intel Academic Community Implementing parallel computing into CS curriculum 85% outside USA Source: M. Wrinn, Intel At SIGCSE’10

  6. Lessons from Invention of Computing H. Goldstine, J. von Neumann. Planning and coding problems for an electronic computing instrument, 1947: “.. in comparing codes 4 viewpoints must be kept in mind, all of them of comparable importance: • Simplicity and reliability of the engineering solutions required by the code; • Simplicity, compactness and completeness of the code; • Ease and speed of the human procedureoftranslating mathematical conceived methods into the code, and also of finding and correcting errors in coding or of applying to it changes that have been decided upon at a later stage; • Efficiency of the code in operating the machine near it full intrinsic speed. Take home Legend features that fail the “truly measure” test In today’s language programmer’s productivity Birth (?) of CS: Translation into code of non-specific methods Next: what worked .. how to match that for parallelism

  7. How was the “non-specificity” addressed? Answer: GvN47 based coding for whatever future application on math. induction coupled with a simple abstraction Then came: HW, Algorithms+SW [Engineering problem. So, why mathematician? Hunch: hard for engineers to relate to .. then and now. A. Ghuloum (Intel), CACM 9/09: “..hardware vendors tend to understand the requirements from the examples that software developers provide… ] Met desiderata for code and coding. See, e.g.: - Knuth67, The art of Computer Programming. Vol. 1: Fundamental Algorithms. Chapter 1: Basic concepts 1.1 Algorithms 1.2 Math Prelims 1.2.1 Math Induction Algorithms: 1. Finiteness 2. Definiteness 3. Input & Output 4. Effectiveness Gold standards Definiteness: Helped by Induction Effectiveness: Helped by “Uniform cost criterion" [AHU74] abstraction 2 comments on induction: 1. 2nd nature for math: proofs & axiom of the natural numbers. 2. need to read into GvN47: “..to make the induction complete..”

  8. Serial Abstraction & A Parallel Counterpart What could I do in parallel at each step assuming unlimited hardware  . . # ops Parallel Execution, Based on Parallel Abstraction Serial Execution, Based on Serial Abstraction . . # ops . . .. .. .. .. time time Time << Work Time = Work Work = total #ops • Rudimentary abstraction that made serial computing simple:that any single instruction available for execution in a serial program executes immediately – ”Immediate Serial Execution (ISE)” Abstracts away different execution time for different operations (e.g., memory hierarchy) . Used by programmers to conceptualize serial computing and supported by hardware and compilers. The program provides the instruction to be executed next (inductively) • Rudimentary abstraction for making parallel computing simple: that indefinitely many instructions, which are available for concurrent execution, execute immediately, dubbed Immediate Concurrent Execution (ICE) Step-by-step (inductive) explication of the instructions available next for concurrent execution. # processors not even mentioned. Falls back on the serial abstraction if 1 instruction/step.

  9. Not behind GvN47 in 1947 Algorithms PRAM-On-Chip HW Prototypes 64-core, 75MHz FPGA of XMT (Explicit Multi-Threaded) architecture SPAA98..CF08 128-core intercon. networkIBM 90nm: 9mmX5mm, 400 MHz [HotI07]Fund work on asynch NOCS’10 FPGA designASIC IBM 90nm: 10mmX10mm 150 MHz PRAM parallel algorithmic theory. “Natural selection”. Latent, though not widespread, knowledgebase “Work-depth”. SV82 conjectured: The rest (full PRAM algorithm) just a matter of skill. Lots of evidence that “work-depth” works. Used as framework in main PRAM algorithms texts: JaJa92, KKT01 Later: programming & workflow Rudimentary yet stable compiler. Architecture scales to 1000+ cores on-chip

  10. Key for GvN47 Engineering solution (1st visit of slide) Program-counter & stored program Later: Seek upgrade for parallel abstraction Virtual over physical: distributed solution

  11. Talk from 30K feet * Past Math induction plus ISE Foundation for first 6 decades of CS Proposed Math induction plus ICE Foundation for future of CS *(Great) Parallel system theory work/modeling Descriptive: How to get the most from what vendors are giving us This talkPrescriptive

  12. Versus Serial & Other Parallel 1st Example: Exchange Problem 2 Bins A and B. Exchange contents of A and B. Ex. A=2,B=5A=5,B=2. Algorithm (serial or parallel): X:=A;A:=B;B:=X. 3 Ops. 3 Steps. Space 1. Array Exchange Problem 2n bins A[1..n], B[1..n]. Replace A(i) and B(i), i=1..n. Serial Alg: For i=1 to n do /*serial exchange through eye-of-a-needle X:=A(i);A(i):=B(i);B(i):=X 3n Ops. 3n Steps. Space 1 Parallel Alg: For i=1 to n pardo /*2-bin exchange in parallel X(i):=A(i);A(i):=B(i);B(i):=X(i) 3n Ops. 3 Steps. Space n Discussion Parallelism tends to require some extra space Par Alg clearly faster than Serial Alg. What is “simpler” and “more natural”: serial or parallel? Small sample of people: serial, but only if you .. majored in CS Eye-of-a-needle: metaphor for the von-Neumann mental & operational bottleneck Reflects extreme scarcity of HW. Less acute now

  13. Input: (i) All world airports. (ii) For each, all its non-stop flights. Find: smallest number of flights from DCA to every other airport. Basic (actually parallel) algorithm Step i: For all airports requiring i-1flights For all its outgoing flights Mark (concurrently!) all “yet unvisited” airports as requiring i flights (note nesting) Serial: forces eye-of-a-needle queue; need to prove that still the same as the parallel version. O(T) time; T – total # of flights Parallel: parallel data-structures. Inherent serialization: S. Gain relative to serial: (first cut) ~T/S! Decisive also relative to coarse-grained parallelism. Note: (i) “Concurrently” as in natural BFS: only change to serial algorithm (ii) No “decomposition”/”partition”  Speed-up wrt GPU: same-silicon area for highly parallel input 5.4X! (iii) But, SMALL CONFIG on 20-way parallel input: 109X wrt same GPU Mental effort of PRAM-like programming 1. sometimes easier than serial 2. considerably easier than for any parallel computer currently sold. Understanding falls within the common denominator of other approaches. 2nd Example of PRAM-like Algorithm

  14. In CS, we single-mindedly serialize -- needed or not • Recall the story about a boy/girl-scout helping an old lady cross the street, even if .. she does not want to cross it • All the machinery (think about compilers) that we try later to get the old lady to the right side of the street, where she originally was and wanted to remain, may not rise to challenge • Conclusion: Got to talk to the boy/girl-scout • To clarify: • The business case for supporting in the best possible way existing serial code is clear • The question is how to write programs in the future

  15. Programmer’s Model as Workflow • Arbitrary CRCW Work-depth algorithm. - Reason about correctness & complexity in synchronous model • SPMD reduced synchrony • Main construct: spawn-join block. Can start any number of processes at once. Threads advance at own speed, not lockstep • Prefix-sum (ps). Independence of order semantics (IOS) – matches Arbitrary CW. For locality: assembly language threads are not-too-short • Establish correctness & complexity by relating to WD analyses Circumvents: (i) decomposition-inventive; (ii) “the problem with threads”, e.g., [Lee] Issue: nesting of spawns. • Tune (compiler or expert programmer): (i) Length of sequence of round trips to memory, (ii) QRQW, (iii) WD. [VCL07] - Correctness & complexity by relating to prior analyses spawn join spawn join

  16. Snapshot: XMT High-level language A D Cartoon Spawn creates threads; a thread progresses at its own speed and expires at its Join. Synchronization: only at the Joins. So, virtual threads avoid busy-waits by expiring. New: Independence of order semantics (IOS) The array compaction (artificial) problem Input: Array A[1..n] of elements. Map in some order all A(i) not equal 0 to array D. e0 e2 e6 For program below: e$ local to thread $; x is 3

  17. XMT-C Single-program multiple-data (SPMD) extension of standard C. Includes Spawn and PS - a multi-operand instruction. Essence of an XMT-C program int x = 0; Spawn(0, n-1) /* Spawn n threads; $ ranges 0 to n − 1 */ { int e = 1; if (A[$] not-equal 0) { PS(x,e); D[e] = A[$] } } n = x; Notes: (i) PS is defined next (think F&A). See results for e0,e2, e6 and x. (ii) Join instructions are implicit.

  18. XMT Assembly Language Standard assembly language, plus 3 new instructions: Spawn, Join, and PS. The PS multi-operand instruction New kind of instruction: Prefix-sum (PS). Individual PS, PS Ri Rj, has an inseparable (“atomic”) outcome: • Store Ri + Rj in Ri, and (ii) Store original value of Ri in Rj. Several successive PS instructions define a multiple-PS instruction. E.g., the sequence of k instructions: PS R1 R2; PS R1 R3; ...; PS R1 R(k + 1) performs the prefix-sum of base R1 elements R2,R3, ...,R(k + 1) to get: R2 = R1; R3 = R1 + R2; ...; R(k + 1) = R1 + ... + Rk; R1 = R1 + ... + R(k + 1). Idea: (i) Several ind. PS’s can be combined into one multi-operand instruction. (ii) Executed by a new multi-operand PS functional unit. Enhanced Fetch&Add. Story: 1500 cars enter a gas station with 1000 pumps. Main XMT patent: Direct in unit time a car to a EVERY pump; PS patent: Then, direct in unit time a car to EVERY pump becoming available

  19. Workflow from parallel algorithms to programming versus trial-and-error Option 2 Option 1 Domain decomposition, or task decomposition PAT Parallel algorithmic thinking (say PRAM) PAT Prove correctness Program Program Still correct Insufficient inter-thread bandwidth? Rethink algorithm: Take better advantage of cache Tune Compiler Still correct Hardware Hardware Is Option 1 good enough for the parallel programmer’s model? Options 1B and 2 start with a PRAM algorithm, but not option 1A. Options 1A and 2 represent workflow, but not option 1B. Not possible in the 1990s. Possible now. Why settle for less?

  20. What difference do we hope to make? Productivity in Parallel Computing The large parallel machines story Funding of productivity: $M650 HProductivityCS, ~2002 Met # Gflops goals: up by 1000X since mid-90’s Met power goals. Also: groomed eloquent spokespeople Progress on productivity: No agreed benchmarks. No spokesperson. Elusive! In fact, not much has changed since:“as intimidating and time consuming as programming in assembly language”--NSF Blue Ribbon Committee, 2003 or even “parallel software crisis”, CACM 1991. Common sense engineering: Untreated bottleneck  diminished returns on improvements bottleneck becomes more critical Next 10 years: New specific programs on flops and power. What about productivity?! Reality: economic island. Cleared by marketing: DOE applications Enter: mainstream many-cores Every CS major should be able to program many-cores

  21. ~2003Wall Street traded companies gave up the safety of the only paradigm that worked for them for parallel computing  The “software spiral” (the cyclic process of HW improvement leading to SW improvement) is broken Reality:Nevereasy-to-program, fast general-purpose parallel computer for single task completion time. Current parallel architectures: never really worked for productivity. Uninviting programmers' models simply turn programmers away Why drag the whole field to a recognized disaster area? Keynote, ISCA09: 10 ways to waste a parallel computer. We can do better: repel the programmer; don’t worry about the rest  New ideas needed to reproduce the success of the serial paradigm for many-core computing, where obtaining strong, but not absolutely the best performance is relatively easy.  Must start to benchmark HW+SW for productivity. See CFP for PPoPP2011. Joint video-conferencing course with UIUC. Many-Cores are Productivity Limited

  22. XMT (Explicit Multi-Threading): A PRAM-On-Chip Vision • IF you could program a current manycore  great speedups. XMT: Fix the IF • XMT was designed from the ground up with the following features: • Allows a programmer’s workflow, whose first step is algorithm design for work-depth. Thereby, harness the whole PRAM theory • No need to program for locality beyond use of local thread variables, post work-depth • Hardware-supported dynamic allocation of “virtual threads” to processors. • Sufficient interconnection network bandwidth • Gracefully moving between serial & parallel execution (no off-loading) • Backwards compatibility on serial code • Support irregular, fine-grained algorithms (unique). Some role for hashing. • Tested HW & SW prototypes • Software release of full XMT environment • SPAA’09:~10X relative to Intel Core 2 Duo

  23. Key for GvN47 Engineering solution (2nd visit of slide) Program-counter & stored program Later: Seek upgrade for parallel abstraction Virtual over physical: distributed solution

  24. XMT Architecture Overview • One serial core – master thread control unit (MTCU) • Parallel cores (TCUs) grouped in clusters • Global memory space evenly partitioned in cache banks using hashing • No local caches at TCU. Avoids expensive cache coherence hardware • HW-supported run-time load-balancing of concurrent threads over processors. Low thread creation overhead. (Extend classic stored-program+program counter; cited by30+patents; Prefix-sum to registers & to memory. ) … MTCU Hardware Scheduler/Prefix-Sum Unit Cluster 1 Cluster 2 Cluster C Parallel Interconnection Network - Enough interconnection network bandwidth Shared Memory (L1 Cache) Memory Bank 1 Memory Bank 2 Memory Bank M DRAM Channel 1 DRAM Channel D

  25. Ease of Programming Benchmark Can any CS major program your manycore? Cannot really avoid it! Teachability demonstrated so far for XMT [SIGCSE’10] - To freshman class with 11 non-CS students. Some prog. assignments: merge-sort*, integer-sort* & sample-sort. Other teachers: - Magnet HS teacher. Downloaded simulator, assignments, class notes, from XMT page. Self-taught. Recommends: Teach XMT first. Easiest to set up (simulator), program, analyze: ability to anticipate performance (as in serial). Can do not just for embarrassingly parallel. Teaches also OpenMP, MPI, CUDA. See also, keynote at CS4HS’09@CMU + interview with teacher. - High school & Middle School (some 10 year olds) students from underrepresented groups by HS Math teacher. *Also in Nvidia’s Satish, Harris & Garland IPDPS09

  26. Middle School Summer Camp Class Picture, July’09 (20 of 22 students)

  27. Software release Allows to use your own computer for programming on an XMT environment & experimenting with it, including: a) Cycle-accurate simulator of the XMT machine b) Compiler from XMTC to that machine Also provided, extensive material for teaching or self-studying parallelism, including Tutorial + manual for XMTC (150 pages) Class notes on parallel algorithms (100 pages) Video recording of 9/15/07 HS tutorial (300 minutes) Video recording of Spring’09 grad Parallel Algorithms lectures (30+hours) www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/vishkin/XMT/sw-release.html, Or just Google “XMT”

  28. But, what is the performance penalty for easy programming?Surprisebenefit! vs. GPU [HotPar10] • 1024-TCU XMT simulations vs. code by others for GTX280. < 1 is slowdown. Sought: similar silicon area & same clock. • Postscript regarding BFS • 59X if average parallelism is 20 • 111X if XMT is … downscaled to 64 TCUs

  29. Problem acronyms BFS: Breadth-first search on graphs Bprop: Back propagation machine learning alg. Conv: Image convolution kernel with separable filter Msort: Merge-sort algorith NW: Needleman-Wunsch sequence alignment Reduct: Parallel reduction (sum) Spmv: Sparse matrix-vector multiplication

  30. AMD Opteron 2.6 GHz, RedHat Linux Enterprise 3, 64KB+64KB L1 Cache, 1MB L2 Cache (none in XMT), memory bandwidth 6.4 GB/s (X2.67 of XMT) M_Mult was 2000X2000 QSort was 20M XMT enhancements: Broadcast, prefetch + buffer, non-blocking store, non-blocking caches. XMT Wall clock time (in seconds) App. XMT Basic XMT Opteron M-Mult 179.14 63.7 113.83 QSort 16.71 6.592.61 Assume (arbitrary yet conservative) ASIC XMT: 800MHz and 6.4GHz/s Reduced bandwidth to .6GB/s and projected back by 800X/75 XMT Projected time (in seconds) App. XMT Basic XMT Opteron M-Mult 23.5312.46 113.83 QSort 1.971.42 2.61 Few more experimental results • Simulation of 1024 processors: 100X on standard benchmark suite for VHDL gate-level simulation. for 1024 processors [Gu-V06] • Silicon area of 64-processor XMT, same as 1 commodity processor (core) (already noted:~10X relative to Intel Core 2 Duo)

  31. Q&A Question: Why PRAM-type parallel algorithms matter, when we can get by with existing serial algorithms, and parallel programming methods like OpenMP on top of it? Answer: With the latter you need a strong-willed Comp. Sci. PhD in order to come up with an efficient parallel program at the end. With the former (study of parallel algorithmic thinking and PRAM algorithms) high school kids can write efficient (more efficient if fine-grained & irregular!) parallel programs.

  32. Conclusion • XMT provides viable answer to biggest challenges for the field • Ease of programming • Scalability (up&down) • Facilitates code portability • SPAA’09 good results: XMT vs. state-of-the art Intel Core 2 • HotPar’10/ICPP’08 compare with GPUs  XMT+GPU beats all-in-one • Fund impact productivity, prog, SW/HW sys arch, asynch/GALS • Easy to build. 1 student in 2+ yrs: hardware design + FPGA-based XMT computer in slightly more than two years  time to market; implementation cost. • Central issue: how to write code for the future? answer must provide compatibility on current code, competitive performance on any amount of parallelism coming from an application, and allow improvement on revised code  time for agnostic (rather than product-centered) academic research

  33. Current Participants Grad students:, George Caragea, James Edwards, David Ellison, Fuat Keceli, Beliz Saybasili, Alex Tzannes. Recent grads: Aydin Balkan, Mike Horak, Xingzhi Wen • Industry design experts (pro-bono). • Rajeev Barua, Compiler. Co-advisor of 2 CS grad students. 2008 NSF grant. • Gang Qu, VLSI and Power. Co-advisor. • Steve Nowick, Columbia U., Asynch computing. Co-advisor. 2008 NSF team grant. • Ron Tzur, U. Colorado, K12 Education. Co-advisor. 2008 NSF seed funding K12:Montgomery Blair Magnet HS, MD, Thomas Jefferson HS, VA, Baltimore (inner city) Ingenuity Project Middle School 2009 Summer Camp, Montgomery County Public Schools • Marc Olano, UMBC, Computer graphics. Co-advisor. • Tali Moreshet, Swarthmore College, Power. Co-advisor. • Bernie Brooks, NIH. Co-Advisor. • Marty Peckerar, Microelectronics • Igor Smolyaninov, Electro-optics • Funding: NSF, NSA 2008 deployed XMT computer, NIH • Industry partner: Intel • Reinvention of Computing for Parallelism. Selected for Maryland Research Center of Excellence (MRCE) by USM. Not yet funded. 17 members, including UMBC, UMBI, UMSOM. Mostly applications.

  34. Backup slides Many forget that the only reason that PRAM algorithms did not become standard CS knowledge is that there was no demonstration of an implementable computer architecture that allowed programmers to look at a computer like a PRAM. XMT changed that, and now we should let Mark Twain complete the job. We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it— and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again— and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.— Mark Twain

  35. How does it work and what should people know to participate “Work-depth” Alg Methodology (SV82)State all ops you can do in parallel. Repeat. Minimize: Total #operations, #rounds. Note: 1The rest is skill. 2. Sets the algorithm Programsingle-program multiple-data (SPMD). Short (not OS) threads. Independence of order semantics (IOS). XMTC: C plus 3 commands: Spawn+Join, Prefix-Sum (PS) Unique 1st parallelism then decomposition Legend: Level of abstraction Means Means: Programming methodologyAlgorithms  effective programs. Extend the SV82 Work-Depth framework from PRAM-like to XMTC [AlternativeEstablished APIs (VHDL/Verilog,OpenGL,MATLAB) “win-win proposition”] Performance-Tuned Program minimize length of sequence of round-trips to memory + QRQW + Depth; take advantage of arch enhancements (e.g., prefetch) Means: Compiler:[ideally: given XMTC program, compiler provides decomposition: tune-up manually  “teach the compiler”] ArchitectureHW-supported run-time load-balancing of concurrent threads over processors. Low thread creation overhead.(Extend classic stored-program program counter; cited by 15 Intel patents; Prefix-sum to registers & to memory. ) All Computer Scientists will need to know >1 levels of abstraction (LoA) CS programmer’s model: WD+P. CS expert : WD+P+PTP. Systems: +A.

  36. PERFORMANCE PROGRAMMING & ITS PRODUCTIVITY Basic Algorithm (sometimes informal) Add data-structures (for serial algorithm) Add parallel data-structures (for PRAM-like algorithm) Serial program (C) 3 Parallel program (XMT-C) 1 Low overheads! 4 Standard Computer Decomposition XMT Computer (or Simulator) Assignment Parallel Programming (Culler-Singh) • 4 easier than 2 • Problems with 3 • 4 competitive with 1: cost-effectiveness; natural Orchestration Mapping 2 Parallel computer

  37. APPLICATION PROGRAMMING & ITS PRODUCTIVITY Application programmer’s interfaces (APIs) (OpenGL, VHDL/Verilog, Matlab) compiler Serial program (C) Parallel program (XMT-C) Automatic? Yes Maybe Yes Standard Computer Decomposition XMT architecture (Simulator) Assignment Parallel Programming (Culler-Singh) Orchestration Mapping Parallel computer

  38. XMT Block Diagram – Back-up slide

  39. ISA • Any serial (MIPS, X86). MIPS R3000. • Spawn (cannot be nested) • Join • SSpawn (can be nested) • PS • PSM • Instructions for (compiler) optimizations

  40. The Memory Wall Concerns: 1) latency to main memory, 2) bandwidth to main memory. Position papers: “the memory wall” (Wulf), “its the memory, stupid!” (Sites) Note: (i) Larger on chip caches are possible; for serial computing, return on using them: diminishing. (ii) Few cache misses can overlap (in time) in serial computing; so: even the limited bandwidth to memory is underused. XMT does better on both accounts: • uses more the high bandwidth to cache. • hides latency, by overlapping cache misses; uses more bandwidth to main memory, by generating concurrent memory requests; however, use of the cache alleviates penalty from overuse. Conclusion: using PRAM parallelism coupled with IOS, XMT reduces the effect of cache stalls.

  41. Some supporting evidence (12/2007) Large on-chip caches in shared memory. 8-cluster (128 TCU!) XMT has only 8 load/store units, one per cluster. [IBM CELL: bandwidth 25.6GB/s from 2 channels of XDR. Niagara 2: bandwidth 42.7GB/s from 4 FB-DRAM channels.With reasonable (even relatively high rate of) cache misses, it is really not difficult to see that off-chip bandwidth is not likely to be a show-stopper for say 1GHz 32-bit XMT.

  42. Memory architecture, interconnects • High bandwidth memory architecture. - Use hashing to partition the memory and avoid hot spots. • Understood, BUT (needed) departure from mainstream practice. • High bandwidth on-chip interconnects • Allow infrequent global synchronization (with IOS). Attractive: lower power. • Couple with strong MTCU for serial code.

  43. Naming Contest for New Computer • Paraleap chosen out of ~6000 submissions Single (hard working) person (X. Wen) completed synthesizable Verilog description AND the new FPGA-based XMT computer in slightly more than two years. No prior design experience. Attests to: basic simplicity of the XMT architecture  faster time to market, lower implementation cost.

  44. XMT Development – HW Track • Interconnection network. Led so far to: • ASAP’06 Best paper award for mesh of trees (MoT) study • Using IBM+Artisan tech files: 4.6 Tbps average output at max frequency (1.3 - 2.1 Tbps for alt networks)!No way to get such results without such access • 90nm ASIC tapeout Bare die photo of 8-terminal interconnection network chip IBM 90nm process, 9mm x 5mm fabricated (August 2007) • Synthesizable Verilog of the whole architecture. Led so far to: • Cycle accurate simulator. Slow. For 11-12K X faster: • 1st commitment to silicon—64-processor, 75MHz computer; uses FPGA: Industry standard for pre-ASIC prototype • 1st ASIC prototype–90nm 10mm x 10mm 64-processor tapeout 2008: 4 grad students

  45. Bottom Line Cures a potentially fatal problem for growth of general-purpose processors: How to program them for single task completion time?

  46. Positive record Proposal Over-Delivering NSF ‘97-’02 experimental algs. architecture NSF 2003-8 arch. simulator silicon (FPGA) DoD 2005-7 FPGA FPGA+2 ASICs

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